The nested morphs and broken dials make Poser 5 and 6 unuseable for any serious character creation.

The "improvements" in Poser 6 break figures that work perfectly well in Poser 4, PP and Poser 5.

Firefly is one of the worst render engines out there, and except for maybe a dozend or two test renders I did I never use it.

Sorry, I have better things to do than learning to set up a gazillion of nodes or run fancy python scripts each time I render when I can have photorealistic tetxure maps with just one click on a MAT-Pose.

Procedural materials are good for games, but for still renders nothing can beat the dense information provided by a photography of the real item.

I don´t have the need for 100% photorealism anyway (Ever heard of uncanny valley ?), but IF I had, I´d make sure to get the right tools to achive that goal, and Firefly sure won´t be among them.

If Poser 7 or any of the following issues adresses these problems, great, but otherwise Poser 4 (with ProPack) will stay on my computer.

stahlratte

"No eyelashes!"
The GIRL mesh has molded eyelashes instead of transparent ones, so she can´t use Unimesh transmaps. So when you use a V3 MAT or material file, her eyelash material will be set to transparent.
Remove the transmap manually from her eyelashes and give them a solid black or brown color.

Stahlratte

Judy P5 is one of the least supported Poser figures out there, so I´d be quite surprised if you find such a texture map.

So this leaves you the following options:

1. Create the items you need yourself, or modify existing items.
   (You can use a free UV-mapper to create yourself a template for the wetsuit to paint over.)

2. Use a clothing converter tool (Like WardrobeWizard) to convert existing clothes for Judy.

3. Create a Judy/V3 hybrid, so you can directly use existing V3 clothes with Judy without conversion.

stahlratte

@shante: Please check your PM´s (SiteMail).

I already sent you a link two weeks ago.  :-)

stahlratte

Judy + P5 FaceRoom + 20 min of your time = Pretty !

stahlratte

starbase1, what ITA 02 product do you have ?

Only the basic ITA 02 package works with V3toV2 SAE.
(http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=9162)

The other ITA 02 products need remapped geometry to work properly, so they come with special UV-files.
And these UV files ONLY work with the original blMilWom.obj,
so you need to own either Vicky 1 or Vicky 2.

BTW, Vicky 1 and 2 are more expensive than Vicky 3 because all morphs are already included.
The (free) Vicky 3 only comes with a few basic head morphs, and the morphs have to be purchased separately.

stahlratte

Hi befuzled,

open the pz3 file of your saved scene with a text editor and replace the word AIKOGIRL_2.obj with AIKOGIRL.obj.

That should fix it.

Also open your Aikogirl.cr2 with a text editor and do the same.
That should fix the error permanently.  :-)

stahlratte

"Yeah, but then you have to dress her."

And where is the problem ?

If the clothes have bodymorphs, just use the same dial settings for the clothes that you used for the body.
And the nice thing about magnets is that they can be saved and then reused for the clothes, too.

Or spawn a full bodymorph from the new bodyshape, and use that to make the clothes fit with one of the cloth converters that are out there.

Stahlratte

".....I don't know, but Miki's general body shape is also more ordinary, not the supermodel that V3 resembles."

Vicky can be as ordinary as YOU want her to be.  ;-)

This is what I´ve got after an hour of scaling, using her default bodymorphs and eight magnets:

And here V3/Eroko compared to the original MIKI:
  

Stahlratte

There are no "perfect settings" to create an authentic looking Asian character with the standard DAZ morphs, simply because they don´t include  true epicanthic eye folds.

So the only options you have are:

1. Buy a custom morphed character set for V3 which has the correct eye shape. (Like Khrys "JieJie" for example)

2. Use a modelling program and/or magnets to create your own  morphs for V3.

3. Buy MIKI and convert her with the converter you can find here in freestuff so you can use her in P4/PP/P5.

4. Or use HAVE´s free "Eroko" character.
   (Do a forum search for the link.)
   She comes with a "detachable" face you can parent like a mask to V3´s head.
   You need to do a little morphing (with magnets) to get Vicky´s face out of the way, and there will be a visible seam. around the chin/neck/ears.
   But if you use longer hair or don´t mind postwork, this is the cheapest and easiest solution to make V3 look truly Japanese:

Eroko only has some basic expression morphs, so if you need more versatility, you´ll have to stick to the other options I listed.

Stahlratte

"Do you use hair that is just for
the Girl?"

No.

Any hair can be made to fit just by scaling and moving it around with the dials.
(If the hair is a character instead of a prop, don´t conform it, but parent it to the head of your figure. Then move and scale the hair´s body.)
If scaling and moving doesn´t suffice, use magnets.
Usually one or two magnets are enough to make even the most stubborn hair fit.
Convert the mags into a morph target and save the modified hair to your hair or character library so that you can use it again.

Stahlratte

@Styxx: Sorry, never heard of that error.

When you use a wrong keyfile, you get the error shown in the pic.

But as so far everybody else was able to decode GIRL 3, I doubt that your blGirl.obj is different from the others.

Maybe the download was corrupt ?
Maybe the file didn´t unzip correctly ?
Are you on a Mac ?
You did use blGirl.obj to decode the AIKOGIRL 2.rte
file ?

Stahlratte

@orangeparty:

Seems like Poser can´t find the object file.

Check the two reference lines in the GIRL 3.cr2 that point to the object file in a text editor.

They must be:

:Runtime:libraries:character:DAZ Aiko 3:AIKOGIRL.obj

And of course the actual AIKOGIRL.obj file must be located in your DAZ AIKO 3 folder in your runtime, so Poser can find it.

Stahlratte

At the top right on your screen under the banner ads you will find your site mail button.

Click on it and it will open a page where you can read your PM´s.

stahlratte

@pgtyner : "I wrote earlier but maybe it got lost in the myriads of other responces."

No, it didn´t.  At least not by me.  :-)
I sent you the link on 2006-10-05 at 08:45:50.

Have you checked your PM´s (sitemail) ?

stahlratte